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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:1278
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR R. MORTON BOLMAN III (Minneapolis, MN):First of all, I congratulate Dr Mitruka and associates on a really outstanding group of results and Dr Mitruka on an excellent presentation. Your slides were very nice, and I congratulate you.

We have had an interest in this at the University of Minnesota. Although we do not do quite as many transplantations as you do, we do have all the organs represented. It is interesting how you sometimes find out the indications for transplantation in your center have changed and liberalized. I was asked recently to do an emergency coronary artery bypass procedure on a 74-year-old woman who 2 months before had undergone a liver transplantation, and I thought the upper age limit for the operation was about 60 years. But, be that as it may, these indications are changing. I would like to ask you . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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